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To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.
- Anais Nin
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour
is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that
every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly,
until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write,
I think there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis
Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write.
Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We will not walk in fear, one of another.
We are not descended from fearful men,
Not from men who feared to write, to speak,
To associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
This is no time... to keep silent.
- Edward R. Murrow
If you can speak what you will never hear,
if you can write what you will never read,
you have done rare things.
- Henry David Thoreau
I decided that it was not wisdom that
enabled poets to write their poetry,
but a kind of instinct or inspiration,
such as you find in seers and prophets
who deliver all their sublime messages
without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates
Each age, it is found, must write its own books;
or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I write emotional algebra.
- Anais Nin
How vain it is to sit down to write
when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is a fact often observed,
that men have written good verses
under the inspiration of passion,
who cannot write well under other circumstances.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing goes by luck in composition.
It allows of no tricks.
The best you can write will be the best you are.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you wish to be a writer, write.
- Epictetus
We write to taste life twice,
in the moment, and in retrospection.
- Anais Nin
If you do not breathe through writing,
if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing,
then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
- Anais Nin
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day,
the benefits of globalization never come to you.
- Jimmy Carter
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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